Heaven Ridge Fire

A fire which began from a lightening strike, mid-afternoon yesterday continues to burn at the top of Dry Creek.

Mark Murphy, from Liverpool Range Rural Fire Service said, “the fire bombers are working on it and the ground crews have been on it all day.”

“We have a dozer going in tomorrow morning and we hope to have it contained by tomorrow afternoon,” he said.

Three other fires to the east of Scone also continue to burn. See: Local Fires Still Burning.

“The one in Rouchel it has a dozer line right around it last night, so it is contained,” said Mr Murphy.

“The one on the top of Moonan Brook, called Castle Gully, is probably two-thirds contained now and the one on Woolooma we are still trying to work with, because it blew out over the lines that we had when the storm developed, the wind came through and put it over, but we’ll get there,” he said.

“We have trucks and crews stuck up the top of Wooloma Range, they’ve been fighting the fire and the storms have made the dozer lines too slippery to come back down.

“The fires aren’t near homes or structures they are in inaccessible areas where it is hard ot get vehicles and people to them, so we are trying to get dozers around bits of it, but a lot of the country is fairly steep,” he said.

“There is pasture being burnt but no buildings,” Mark Murphy said.